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Jörg Buttgereit (born 20 December 1963) is a German writer/director known for his controversial films. He was born in Berlin and has lived there his entire life. He is best known for his horror films Nekromantik (1987), Der Todesking (1990), Nekromantik 2 (1991) and Schramm (1993).
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10 June 2023
Maddie is haunted by her past but when the mysterious Mike Donovan shows up, her life turns upside down and her inner demons take the physical form of a demonic bear.
11 May 2013
It's 1973, the scene is New York, there's a strange virus, a penis transplant, a saw and a stick of leeks: Adam is not successful with women and has a rather tiny penis, but his friend Dick is a very successful lover, owning "the largest cock in town".
28 August 2017
Using testimonies by pioneers and witnesses of the times, delve into the feverish visual culture the media generated – with far-fetched examples of canine television games, seduction manuals, aerobics class while holding a baby, among others.
01 January 1994
Portrait of the factory worker Klaus Beyer, who shoots wonderful Super-8 films in his free time and gives bizarre concerts as a Beatles interpreter.
17 June 2021
Guided by his doctor (or is it voices in his head?), a young director is given a mission: to go to Texas to make an abstract roadmovie (“Unfocused film! Focus is repressed!”) about the Housecore Horror Festival of Film and Music, a festival that brings together cinema and extreme music.
01 January 2004
Celluloid Horror explores Kier-La Janisse's tireless crusade to bring obscure cult horror film to the masses through her independently run international film festival.
29 January 1988
A necrophilic street sweeper who cleans up after grisly accidents brings home a corpse for him and his girlfriend to enjoy sexually, but is dismayed to see that she prefers the corpse over him.
24 January 2015
Horror anthology consisting of three episodes directed by Jörg Buttgereit, Andreas Marschall and Michal Kosakowski.
01 September 2007
Reveals the extreme measures lawmakers and critics go through to censor avant-garde artists, who walk the fine line between art, perversion, religion and devious sexual behavior.
24 November 2024
Film icons and genre experts share observations, experiences, and analysis to help reframe, deconstruct, and re-contextualize the "lost" decade of horror: the '90s.
25 February 2020
The 20-minute short film “ Piggy ” documents one of the forensic biologist Dr. Mark Benecke carried out decomposition study.
07 May 1991
Monika lives with Rob, a corpse she loves. Her dilemma intensifies when she meets Mark and considers a normal life with him.
20 December 2019
Documentary about the rise of the Video Home System in Germany.
25 January 1990
Seven episodes, each taking place on a different day of the week, on the theme of suicide and violent death.
29 August 1996
In New York City, detective Luigi Mackeroni investigates a string of mysterious penile mutilations at the Hotel Quickie.
26 September 2006
The Meltdown Memoirs depicts the production of the movie Street Trash along with cast and crew interviews 20 years later.
01 January 1984
Jörg Buttgereit himself plays a TV horror show presenter, introducing the audience to a variety of "Horror classics”.
15 December 2014
A 2014 documentary looking at the impact of the film on the horror scene both in the UK and abroad, s
15 December 2014
A short documentary featuring an interview with director Jörg Buttgereit.
16 April 2004
The film deals loosely with the adventures of the grizzled Gustav who captains a ship – a giant floating ‘snailboat’ – with a crew of talking animals and lumbering sailors in blackface.
01 January 1980
"Der explodierende Turnschuh" is a short film in which a shoe explodes
26 September 2024
While searching for Nazi documents in an Austrian farmhouse, a team of experts uncovers a hidden secret buried in its bowels.
06 October 1984
A documentary about the now abandoned and very influential punk club S.O.36. A punk music club on Oranienstrasse near Heinrichplatz in the area of Kreuzberg in Berlin, Germany.
01 January 1992
Jelenski and Buttgereit delight us once again with a collection of selected bizarre things that even add one more to the first part.
23 July 2013
A graveyard is the ironic location for a tribute to one of the world's most notorious oddballs.
01 January 2015
Tv documentary by Margarete Kreuzer about the sub-culture of West-Berlin in the 1980s. The unique political and geographical status of West-Berlin in the cold war lead to a unique scene of artists reflecting the Zeitgeist and creating profound work that is now a part of history.
01 January 1982
Early no budget experimental Super-8 short film made by Buttgereit in just one day in 1982. Nazi leader Adolf Hitler has survived the war, holed up in his bunker.
01 January 1981
Manne's last summer: goes to watch a football game, drinks, pukes. Man keeps drinking. Man drops dead.
01 January 1993
Lothar Schramm is a simple man with complex problems, yet he seems like such a nice guy. He works as a taxi driver and lives by himself where he is happy to answer his door to strangers and kill them outright.
05 February 2015
The wild West Berlin of the 1980s became the creative melting pot of pop subcultures: music, art and chaos.
01 January 1982
The Captain Berlin character was created by Buttgereit in the early 1980s and first appeared in his Super 8 short film CAPTAIN BERLIN - RETTER DER WELT (CAPTAIN BERLIN SAVES THE WORLD).
19 December 2025
In Search of Darkness: 1995-1999 celebrates and explores the movies that defined the era: from Scream’s genre-shattering impact to J-Horror’s global emergence, from mind-bending twists to Y2K apocalyptic dread, and from blockbuster hits to straight-to-video gems.
29 March 2009
A journey through time and history of diverse monster types, from the latex monster in devastated postwar Japan to aliens and serial murderers.
29 January 2017
The golden age of home video may be over, but VHS is still very much alive for these dedicated fans, collectors and low-budget filmmakers.
13 August 2015
ABCs of Superheroes brings you not only one or two or five, but no less than twenty-six of the most heroic and outrageous Superheroes and Supervillains of all time.
01 January 2022
Klaus Beyer turned 70 and celebrated with an open-air concert in the Festsaal Kreuzberg, Berlin. Georg Maas, Matl Findel, Sabine Herpich and Stephan Kruhl filmed and Frank Behnke edited the first Beyer live concert film.
23 March 2019
An authorized stop-motion sequel to Jörg Buttgereit's 1993 movie "Schramm", called scenes from the Afterlife of Lothar Schramm, who was the centre of the feature film.
14 October 2015
Before there were home video formats and the internet, the “Bahnhofskinos” (“Train station cinemas”) in West Germany regularly showed trash and erotica movies.
01 January 1985
A guy is in love with a girl. He sees her one day with another guy, freaks out, commits suicide, and then she has a baby.
25 October 2009
Disappointed by love, suicidal Norman arranges to meet some like-minded people. But when he arrives at the meeting the alleged suicides turn out to be unscrupulous killers looking for a willing victim.
01 January 1992
The author Stefan König has writer's block. This changes when he witnesses the murder of a prostitute.
11 May 2013
Hiroshima, Japan: A giant monster attacks a fishing boat and devours the crew. Frankenstein expert Russ Adams and radiation researcher Takako Mizuno are suspicious.
01 January 1992
A feature length documentary following the making of horror director, Jorg Buttgerreit's movies.
01 January 1982
Compilation of amateur short films that consist of sex, violence and very bizarre humor. The safety regulations apply: keep out of the reach of children and adolescents!
10 December 2010
Documentary about Klaus Beyer with footage of this performance at WP8 Künstlerverein, Düsseldorf, talks with Jörg Buttgereit and Christoph Schlingensief, footage of the theatre work "Eine Kirche der Angst vor dem Fremden in Mir" in Amsterdam.
01 January 1984
An abusive boyfriend learns that his current lady has a taste for longpig.
06 March 2009
After the Nazis took power, the resistance searched for a solution to end Adolf Hitler's evil dictatorship.
21 January 2011
In 2009, exground filmfest presented Jörg Buttgereit's picturized stage play “Captain Berlin vs. Hitler”.
13 January 1992
Behind the scenes of Jörg Buttgereit's Nekromantik 2.
01 January 1992
The making of Jörg Buttgereits 1987 horror classic 'Nekromantik'.
01 January 1984
When a giant monster ravages a German town, humanity’s only hope lies in the secret weapon known at
01 January 1981
The dwarf Ogar lived alone and abandoned. He lived in a small, cramped cave and fed on garbage. One day, a prince rode by and wanted to free Ogar from his fate.
25 January 1991
Behind the scenes of Jörg Buttgereit's Der Todesking.
